Steven Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 has it been completely removed? or shut off by a policy? Its not in services and I can't seem to find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 I was playing last night, and saw something about Shadow copying, try the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted March 10, 2003 Author Share Posted March 10, 2003 I was playing last night, and saw something about Shadow copying, try the help. Volume Shadow Copying Service is something completely different. Just wondering if System Restore is existant in 2003. Microsoft Describes that in Windows Xp/2003 Windows XP Overview Volume shadow copy overview Windows XP allows you to create shadow copy backups of volumes, exact point-in-time copies of files, including all open files. For example, databases that are held open exclusively and files that are open due to operator or system activity are backed up during a volume shadow copy backup. In this way, files that have changed during the backup window are copied correctly. Shadow copy backups ensure that: Applications can continue to write data to the volume during a backup. Files that are open are no longer omitted during a backup. Backups can be performed at any time, without locking out users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 Ah, wasn't sure. Oh well, I'll read about the shadow tonight. Passing thought: System Restore might not be present because of potential problems with a restore and AD, maybe there is a article on MS site about this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted March 10, 2003 Author Share Posted March 10, 2003 Ah, wasn't sure. Oh well, I'll read about the shadow tonight.Passing thought: System Restore might not be present because of potential problems with a restore and AD, maybe there is a article on MS site about this. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/us...en/vssadmin.asp You can use VSSADMIN to get started with Volume Shadowing. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Posted March 10, 2003 Share Posted March 10, 2003 So if I understand this correctly, this service is to protect the backup capabilty? If so, nice addition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted March 10, 2003 Author Share Posted March 10, 2003 So if I understand this correctly, this service is to protect the backup capabilty? If so, nice addition. Yes, this new service makes it much easier for system adminstrators to backup networks while they're in use, something that was impossible in previous release of windows, usually you'd have to wait until the file(s) that you wanted to back up were not in use, if they were in use the OS would ignore them in the backup set and move on. With VSC it creates a special place for the backup files and then makes the backup. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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